Teaser Tuesday: The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort

It
was the first time I'd heard the roar of a Wall Street boardroom, which sounded
like the roar of a mob. It was a sound
I'd never forget, a sound that would change my life forever. It was the sound of young men engulfed by
greed and ambition, pitching their hearts and souls out to wealthy business
owners across America.

By day he made thousands
of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on
drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a
170-foot motor yacht and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and
kids waiting at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young
stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, in his own
inimitable words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called . . .

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

In
the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment
firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous names in American
finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a
wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street and into a massive office
on Long Island. Now, in this astounding and hilarious tell-all
autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of greed, power, and excess that
no one could invent.

Reputedly the prototype for the film Boiler Room,
Stratton Oakmont turned microcap investing into a wickedly lucrative
game as Belfort’s hyped-up, coked-out brokers browbeat clients into
stock buys that were guaranteed to earn obscene profits—for the house.
But an insatiable appetite for debauchery, questionable tactics, and a
fateful partnership with a breakout shoe designer named Steve Madden
would land Belfort on both sides of the law and into a harrowing
darkness all his own.

From the stormy relationship Belfort
shared with his model-wife as they ran a madcap household that included
two young children, a full-time staff of twenty-two, a pair of
bodyguards, and hidden cameras everywhere—even as the SEC and FBI zeroed
in on them—to the unbridled hedonism of his office life, here is the
extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian
ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. Until it all came
crashing down . . .

My ThoughtsI've been on a nonfiction kick lately. I decided to read this because there had been a movie made based on the book. I haven't watched the movie but thoroughly enjoyed the book!

I love this quote, as it describes a defining moment in the author's life. Everything that is to come later for him can be found here, at this point in time.